Senior Software Engineer - Conversational Search
About The Position
Our Conversational Search team is building Redfin’s next generation artificial intelligence powered home search experience, redefining how millions of users discover homes. This is one of Redfin’s most ambitious and visible product initiatives for 2026, combining conversational UI, LLM powered reasoning, and high performance backend systems to create a fast, intuitive and deeply helpful way to search for homes. Because this new search paradigm attracts significant engagement and traffic, performance, reliability, and thoughtful UX design are critical. By joining the team, you’ll work at the intersection of AI, product design, and large-scale distributed systems to create a fundamentally better way for people to search for homes. If you’re excited about building highly polished, user-facing products, experimenting rapidly, and helping define the future of search at Redfin, this is the team. About the Role You will develop responsive, resilient, scalable, and high-quality conversational experiences using React, Java, AWS, Sierra AI and various other tools/libraries. You will balance the trade-offs between complex infrastructure investments and quick, pragmatic solutions to meet specific business needs. You will collaborate with other engineering and product stakeholders to define, design, and lead the development of significant multi-person projects. You will mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and advocating for best practices. You will stay up to date with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and help evaluate new tools, models, and frameworks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional full-stack software development experience, specifically in React and Java.
- Experience with modern frontend technologies (React, TypeScript).
- Proven track record of designing, building, and maintaining scalable, high-performance web applications.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment, handle ambiguity, and empathize with customers.
Nice To Haves
- Excited about LLMs, agent development, conversational UX, and emerging AI technologies.
- Love elegant interfaces that can tell stories and inspire trust.
- A teacher and a mentor: have the leadership skills (and the patience) to improve the developers around you.
- Eager to help us in our mission to create a fundamentally better real estate experience for our customers.
Responsibilities
- Develop responsive, resilient, scalable, and high-quality conversational experiences using React, Java, AWS, Sierra AI and various other tools/libraries.
- Balance the trade-offs between complex infrastructure investments and quick, pragmatic solutions to meet specific business needs.
- Collaborate with other engineering and product stakeholders to define, design, and lead the development of significant multi-person projects.
- Mentor and guide other engineers, providing technical leadership and advocating for best practices.
- Stay up to date with the rapidly evolving AI ecosystem and help evaluate new tools, models, and frameworks.
Benefits
- Perks and health benefits that will help you have peace of mind.
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401K retirement plan
- Paid-time off
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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